Display-rack for supporting, measuring, and cutting oil-cloth or other materials.



PATENTED FEB. 14, 1905.

G. H. KQING.

DISPLAY RACK FOR SUPPORTING, MEASURING, AND CUTTING OIL CLOTH OR. OTHER MATERIALS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9.1904.

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PATENTED FEB. 14, 1905.

. G.. H. KING. DISPLAY RAG-K FOR SUPPORTING SURING, AND CUTTING OIL CLOTH MBA OR OTHER MATERIALS, APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9,1904.

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INVENTOR At/arriqy UNITED. STATES Patented February 14, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE HENRY KING, OF GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM P. 'EAGER, OF GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA TER- RITORY.

DISPLAY-RACK FOR SUPlORTING, MEASURING, AND CUTTING OIL-CLOTH OR OTHER MATERIALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,565, dated February 14, 1905,

Application filed June 9, 1904. Serial No. 211,802.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE HENRY KING, a resident of Guthrie, in the county of Logan and Territory of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display- Racks for Supporting, Measuring, and Outting Oil-Cloth or other Material; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,

IO such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved display-rack for supporting, measuring, andcutting oil-cloth and other material, the object of the invention being to provide improvements of this character Which will support a number of rolls of oil-cloth or other material in such manner as to readily display the same, feed material from any of the rolls under proper tension to an improved measuring attachment to measure any length of cloth desired, and provide improved mechanism for permitting the cutting of the cloth after being measured.

sists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a view in transverse section.- Fig. 3 is a top plan view, and Figs. 4 and 5 are views illustrating the measuring mechanism.

The base-frame of my improvements comprises parallel bars 1, connected at their rear ends by a cross-bar 2, and have secured thereto triangular uprights 3, one of which is pro- 4 Vided with openings 4 and the other with notches 5 in its inclined edge to provide bearings for rods 6, on which strips of oil-cloth or other material are wound, the notched bearings ,5 permitting ready removal or insertion of the rods when desired.

To the outside inclined edge of uprights 3, adjacent to the rods 6, tension-rods 7 are se- I/Vith this object in view the invention eon-v bar 1, permitting readyremoval of the roll or cylinder 10 when desired, and this trunnion last referred to projects beyond bar 1 and has a crank-arm 13 secured thereon to permit the easy turning of the roll or cylinder to wind the cloth thereon. The roll or cylinder 10 is flattened at one side and has pivoted-tongues 1A secured thereon and adapted when the end of a strip of cloth is placed in position on the flattened face of the roll or cylinder and the tongues 14 swung over the same to a position parallel with the roll or cylinder to tightly clamp the end of the cloth to the cylinder and compel it to Wind thereon when the crankarm 18 is turned.

On the frame, at one end of roll or cylinder 10, is a disk or dial 15, with which a pointer 16 on the roll or cylinder 10 is adapted to register to indicate the length of cloth Wound on the roll. This dial is suitably marked, so as to indicate to any one of average intelligence just how many revolutions or fractions of a revolution must be made of the roll or cylinder to measure a given length of cloth.

The straight-edge cutter-guide 9, above re ferred to, comprises parallel bars 1, spaced apart just sufficient to enable a knife or cutter to move between them and sever the cloth in a straight line, and said bars are preferably reinforced by metal coverings to prevent the knife or cutter injuring them. To rigidly hold the cloth while being out, a bar 17 is secured at its ends to links 18, pivoted to uprights 3, and is adapted to swing down onto the cloth, and a web or flange 19 is provided on the lower face of this bar 17 and is adapted to tightly clamp the cloth. between the edge of the inner bar 9 and said web or flange 19, and thereby securely hold the cloth while being cut, enabling oil-cloth and like material to be evenly out, which is very diflicult with such means as are ordinarily used for the purpose.

By mounting the roll-supporting rods 6, as above explained, the ends of all the rolls of cloth rest over the tension-rods and can be seen at once, and the purchaser can quickly decide just what pattern he desires. The merchant can then connect the end of the cloth selected with the measuring-roll 10, as above explained, and readily measure off and cut the length of cloth desired.

Any ordinary knife or cutter or any form of rotary cutter can be employed to sever the cloth along the straight-edge cutter-guide, as above explained.

To measure the oil-cloth when a considerable length is desired, 1 provide a reel or spool 20, mounted on one of the uprights and having a crank-arm 21 to turn the same. A tape-measure 22 is wound on said spool or reel and is adapted to be carried with the cloth beneath bar 17, over the cutter-guide, and wound on roller and measure the cloth-as it is wound on the roll.

A great many slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a triangular frame constructed in its diagonal front with a series of bearings, a horizontal rod removably mounted in each pair of alined bearings for supporting a" roll of material, ameasuring device located on the frame in front of the diagonal front portion thereof, a holding-bar located between the diagonal front of the frame and the measuring device, and a cutter-guide located between the holding-bar and the measuring device.

2. The combination with a display-rack, of a series of rods removably mounted in said rack and each adapted to support a roll of cloth, tension-rods secured to the rack and over which the cloth must pass, a measuring device in front of the rack, a straight-edge cutter-guide between the measuring device and rack over which the cloth is drawn, and a pivoted crossbar between the rack and cutter-guide adapted to tightly hold the cloth on the cutter-guide.

in testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence 'of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE HENRY KING. Witnesses:

D: M. LENTZ, A. A. BEYER. 

